Alexandre Zani
Software Engineer at Google
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Zani is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience at Google and prior roles across startups and finance, blending production engineering with strong quantitative instincts. He has shipped front-end and translation features on high-visibility open-source projects like Google Person Finder and has a track record of building developer frameworks and analytics tools earlier in his career. Based in Oakland, he brings deep technical breadth—from Python and Java development to web UI work—and an appetite for formal methods and differential privacy applied to real systems. Alexandre prefers fully remote roles and evaluates moves selectively, with clear compensation and ethical constraints, signaling a pragmatic, principled approach to career choices. Notably, his background pairs practical product delivery with academic-style rigor, making him well suited to roles that leverage math, privacy expertise, or formal verification.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA, International Affairs, Economics, Computer Science, BA, International Affairs, Economics, Computer Science at Lewis & Clark College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
internationalization10
localization10
google-translate-api10
html10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
minimax6
chess6
nodejs6
tensorflow6
coq6
machine-learning6
alpha-beta-pruning6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
google/personfinder
Dec 2010 - Dec 2010
Person Finder is a searchable missing person database written in Python and hosted on App Engine.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily focused on enhancing the user interface by implementing language translation features within the `google/personfinder` repository. They added and modified JavaScript code to integrate the Google Translate API, translating note messages on the view page. The user also addressed issues related to language code handling and display, including fixing display problems for the Chinese language and ensuring translated text is displayed correctly. Furthermore, they made changes to the HTML templates to accommodate these translation features.
pythonapp-enginepersonhostedfinder
floitschG/mojom-standalone
Nov 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:85 commits in 1 year 2 months
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